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Ernie Mott (Cary Grant) is a restless, irresponsible, wandering Cockney with a good musical ear. On Armistice Day, Ernie visits the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which memorializes those who died in World War I, including his father. Ernie wants a better life but does not want to settle down or work for it. When he returns home, Ma Mott (Ethel Barrymore) asks why he has returned after so long, and she gives him an ultimatum that he must stay home now or leave forever. He informs her that he will then be leaving next morning, and goes out to get a drink. He meets fellow musician Aggie Hunter (Jane Wyatt) outside the bar, but instead prefers the company of a gangster's fickle former wife, Ada Brantline (June Duprez). However, when Ernie becomes smitten with Ada she rejects his offer of a date when he tells her he will be leaving town tomorrow.

The next morning, Ma Mott tells her pawnbroker friend, Ike Weber (Konstantin Shayne), that she has cancer. Ma and Ernie get into another fight, but after he storms out, Ike shares with him that his mother needs him in her battle with cancer. Ernie returns and says that he will stay with her at home and help her run her shop.

A month passes, and Ernie continues to pursue Ada. However, when gangster Jim Mordinoy (George Coulouris) informs him that she's still his wife, Ernie doesn't believe Ada when she says that's a lie and he cuts her off socially. Ernie begins to notice the poverty surrounding him in London, and chooses to accept Mordinoy's offer to join his activities, even against Ada's pleas. Ernie begins to steal cars, and he is involved in a police chase until his car collides with a truck and explodes into flames. Ada implores him to run away with her, but he does not want to leave his dying mother.

When Ernie is eventually bailed out of jail by Ike, he finds out that after the police find Ernie's platinum cigarette case—his birthday gift from Ma—was stolen, the police arrest her and put her in prison. She begs for forgiveness for shaming the family, and dies in prison hospital. When he returns home, he learns via a letter from Ada that she decided to stay with Mordinoy because that would make her life easier. Ernie is crushed, and walks along the street until he gets to Aggie's door and walks in.

None but the Lonely Heart and 1935's Sylvia Scarlett were the only two films in which Cary Grant used a Cockney accent,[2][3] though that was not his original accent, as he was originally from Bristol.[4] The unique vocal intonations with which he spoke in every other film were the results of an unsuccessful attempt to go from an English to an American accent so that he wouldn't be limited to playing British roles in American movies.[citation needed]

RKO Pictures head Charles Koerner bought Richard Llewllyn's book as a starring vehicle for Cary Grant. Koerner also suggested that playwright Clifford Odets direct the picture. This was the first feature film that Odets directed, and he would direct only one other picture in his career, the 1959 film The Story On Page One. To secure Ethel Barrymore's availability to complete her scenes, RKO had to pay all the expenses incurred by temporarily closing the play The Corn Is Green, in which she was starring on Broadway.[5]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the East End London road set in this film was the largest and most complete external set constructed inside a sound stage at that time. The set measured 800 feet long and extended the length of two sound stages.[5]

Lela Rogers, the mother of Ginger Rogers, denounced the script of None but the Lonely Heart at a House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing as a "perfect example of the propaganda that Communists like to inject" and accused Odets of being a Communist. Rogers cited the line spoken by "Ernie" to his mother, "you're not going to get me to work here and squeeze pennies out of little people who are poorer than I am," as an example of Communist propaganda.[5]Hanns Eisler, who was nominated for an Academy Award for composing the film's score, was also interrogated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and was designated as an unfriendly witness for his refusal to cooperate.[5]

Romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, as in all quite strong and close romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. In romantic television series, the development of romantic relationships may play out over many episodes. Historical romance - A romantic story with a period setting and this includes films such as Gone with the Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Romantic drama usually revolves around an obstacle which prevents deep and true love between two people. Music is often employed to indicate the mood, creating an atmosphere of greater insulation for the couple. The conclusion of a romantic drama typically does not indicate whether a final union between the two main characters will occur. Chick flick is a term associated with romance films as many are targeted to a female audience.

He had a successful Hollywood career in films as The Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, And Then There Were None, The Naked City. In 1945, Fitzgerald achieved a unique Academy Awards feat, an avid golfer, he accidentally decapitated his Oscar while practicing his golf swing. During World War II, Oscar statuettes were made of plaster instead of gold-plated bronze to accommodate wartime metal shortages, the Academy provided Fitzgerald with a replacement statuette. Fitzgerald returned to live in Dublin in 1959, where he lived at 2 Seafield Ave and he died, as William Joseph Shields, in St Patricks Hospital, James Street, on 4 January 1961. Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for pictures at 6252 Hollywood Boulevard. List of actors with Academy Award nominations and Hollywood Walk of Fame stars List of people on stamps of Ireland Boylan, Henry

Clifford Odets was an American playwright and director. Odets was widely seen as successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene ONeill as ONeill began to retire from Broadways commercial pressures, from early 1935 on, Odets socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets works inspired the next generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941-42 season, Odets focused his energies on film projects and he began to be eclipsed by such playwrights as Miller, Tennessee Williams and, in 1950, William Inge. At the time of his death in 1963, Odets was serving as script writer and script supervisor on The Richard Boone Show, born of a plan for televised repertory theater. Though many obituaries lamented his work in Hollywood and considered him someone who had not lived up to his promise, director Elia Kazan understood it differently.

The tragedy of our times in the theatre is the tragedy of Clifford Odets, Kazan began and his plan, he said, was to. Come back to New York and get plays on, they’d be, he assured me, the best plays of his life. Cliff wasnt shot. The mind and talent were alive in the man, Odets was born in Philadelphia to Louis Odets and Pearl Geisinger, Russian- and Romanian-Jewish immigrants, and was raised in Philadelphia and the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of school after two years to become an actor. In 1931, he became a member of the Group Theatre. This technique was based on the system devised by the Russian actor and director Constantin Stanislavski and it was further developed by Group Theatre director Lee Strasberg and became known as The Method or Method Acting. Odets eventually became the Groups primary playwright, Odets pursued acting with great passion and ingenuity. At the age of 19 he struck out on his own, under this moniker he procured bookings as a radio elocutionist. He moved away from his parents, to Greenwich Village, where he acted with the Poets Theatre under the direction of Village legend Harry Kemp.

Odets claimed to have become Americas first real disc jockey at about time, at radio station WBNY. In this capacity he saw the 1926 Broadway production of Seán OCaseys Juno, OCaseys work would prove to be a powerful influence on Odets as a playwright. The young Odets spent several summers as a counselor at camps in the Catskills

Dan Duryea was an American actor in film and television. Known for portraying a vast range of roles as a villain, he nonetheless had a long career in a wide variety of leading. Born and raised in White Plains, New York, Duryea graduated from White Plains High School in 1924, while at Cornell, Duryea was elected into the prestigious Sphinx Head Society, Cornells oldest senior honor society. He majored in English with a strong interest in drama, as his parents did not approve of his choice to pursue an acting career, Duryea became an advertising executive but after six stress-filled years, had a heart attack that sidelined him for a year. Returning to his love of acting and the stage, Duryea made his name on Broadway in the play Dead End, followed by The Little Foxes. In 1940, Duryea moved to Hollywood to appear in the version of The Little Foxes. He continued to establish himself with supporting and secondary roles in such as The Pride of the Yankees. In 1946, exhibitors voted him the eighth most promising star of tomorrow, in the 1950s, Duryea co-starred with James Stewart in three films, Winchester 73, Thunder Bay and Night Passage.

Not just an actor, but a successful one, I looked in the mirror and knew with my puss and 155-pound weakling body, I couldnt pass for a leading man, and I had to be different. And I sure had to be courageous, so I chose to be the meanest s. o. b. in the movies, strictly against my mild nature, as Im an ordinary, peace-loving husband and father. At first it was hard as I am a very even-tempered guy. Like the school bully who used to try and beat the hell out of me at least once a week, a sadistic family doctor that believed feeling pain when he treated you was the birthright of every man inasmuch as women suffered giving birth. Little incidents with trade-people who enjoyed acting superior because they owned their business, the one I used when I had to slap a woman around was easy. I was slapping the over-bearing teacher who would fail you in their holier-than-thou class, and especially the experiences I had dealing with the unbelievable pompous know-it-all-experts that I dealt with during my advertising agency days.

The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was dissolved two years later. In 1981, broadcaster RKO General, the heir, revived it as a production subsidiary. In October 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer and its success prompted Hollywood to convert from silent to sound film production en masse. The Radio Corporation of America controlled an advanced optical sound-on-film system, RCA Photophone, the industrys two largest major studios and Loews/MGM, with two other studios Universal and First National, were poised to contract with ERPI for sound conversion as well. Next on the agenda was securing a string of exhibition venues like those the leading Hollywood production companies owned, Kennedy began investigating the possibility of such a purchase. Around that time, the large Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit of theaters, built around the medium of live vaudeville, was attempting a transition to the movie business. In mid-1927, the operations of Pathé Exchange and Cecil B. De Milles Producers Distributing Corporation had united under KAOs control, early in 1928, KAO general manager John J.

Murdock, who had assumed the presidency of Pathé, turned to Kennedy as an adviser in consolidating the studio with De Milles company, PDC. This was the relationship Sarnoff and Kennedy sought, on October 23,1928, RCA announced the creation of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum holding company, with Sarnoff as chairman of the board. Kennedy, who withdrew from his positions in the merged companies, kept Pathé separate from RKO. RCA owned the governing stock interest in RKO,22 percent, in the early 1930s, the companys production and distribution arm, presided over by former FBO vice-president Joseph I

A cigarette case is a sturdy container used to store small numbers of cigarettes and prevent them from being crushed. A typical cigarette case is a box that opens symmetrically into two halves. Each half stores a row of cigarettes, which are held in place by a spring or an elastic strap. Some cigarette cases are simply sturdy cases used to store standard cigarette packs, in modern times cigarette cases are made of plastic. Some cigarette cases come with features, such as built-in lighters or ashtrays. A cigarette box, much like a cigarhumidor, is a larger item often stored on desktops or coffee tables, made of wood, glass, or ceramic, a cigarette box holds a larger number of cigarettes for use by the homeowner and guests. Typical cigarette tins in the United States of the 1920s–1930s stored 50 cigarettes, because of this, they were sometimes referred to by the nickname flat fifties. Cigarette cases are fashionable accessories within smoking culture, as such, they may be made of precious metals, adorned with artistic engravings and jewels.

Peter Carl Fabergé, while most famous for his Fabergé eggs, manufactured exquisite cases of gold and gems for the family of the Tsar, some of which are reportedly worth up to $25,000. At the opening of each of his new Broadway productions, Cole Porters wife, each was more beautiful than the last, in gold, silver or leather, many studded with gems and generally styled to relate to that shows theme. Cigarette cases are collectible items, common silver cigarette cases are most often chrome-plated, although there are silver-plated or polished aluminum cases in addition to genuine sterling ones. Cigarette cases used to be popular with soldiers, and many World War I, cigarette cases were a way to avoid the invasive labels. The United States Census Bureau, for the purposes of statistics, includes manufacturing or adorning of cigarette cases in the category NAICS339914 Costume jewelry. Due to the compactness of a case, being just small enough to conveniently fit in a pocket. In some of the James Bond films, Bond is issued gadgets which are concealed in cigarette cases, in the 1987 Disney TV movie Double Agent, the lead character, a spy, carries a cigarette case filled with licorice.

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical and linguistic associations. More recently, it is used to refer to those in Londons East End. Linguistically, cockney English refers to the accent or dialect of English traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners, in recent years, many aspects of cockney English have become part of general South East English speech, producing a variant known as Estuary English. The earliest recorded use of the term is 1362 in passus VI of William Langlands Piers Plowman, the mythical land of luxury Cockaigne appeared under a variety of spellings—including Cockayne and Cockney—and became humorously associated with the English capital London. This may have developed from the sources above or separately, alongside such terms as cock, by 1600, this meaning of cockney was being particularly associated with the Bow Bells area. In 1617, the travel writer Fynes Moryson stated in his Itinerary that Londoners, the same year, John Minsheu included the term in this newly restricted sense in his dictionary Ductor in Linguas.

The use of the term to describe all Londoners generally, survived into the 19th century before becoming restricted to the working class, the term is now used loosely to describe all East Londoners, although some distinguish the areas that were added to London in 1964. The region in which cockneys are thought to reside is not clearly defined, a common view is that in order to be a cockney, one must have been born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow. However, the church of St Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London, although the bells were destroyed again in 1941 in the Blitz, they had fallen silent on 13 June 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. Before they were replaced in 1961, there was a period when, by the within earshot definition, the East LondonMaternity Hospital in Stepney, which was 2.5 miles from St Mary-le-Bow, was in use from 1884 to 1968. There is a maternity unit still in use at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, Home births were very common until the late 1960s.

Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the First Lady of the American Theater, Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era, Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew. Her father was killed four months before her birth in a famous Old West encounter in Texas while heading a traveling road company. She was named for her father’s favorite character—Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Newcomes and she was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was a granddaughter of actress and theater-manager Louisa Lane Drew and she spent her childhood in Philadelphia, and attended Roman Catholic schools there. In 1884 she, her parents and brothers sailed to England, Maurice had inherited a substantial amount of money from an aunt and decided to exhibit a play and star in some plays at Londons Haymarket Theatre.

Ethel recalled being frightened on first meeting Oscar Wilde when handing him some cakes, returning to the U. S. in 1886, her father took her to her first baseball game. She established a lifelong love of baseball and wanted to be a concert pianist, the years in England were the happiest of her childhood years due to the fact the Barrymores were more of a nuclear family in London than at any other time when in the United States. Georgie did not recover and died in July 1893 a week before her 37th birthday, essentially Ethel and Lionels childhood ended when Georgie died. They were forced to go to work in their teens, John, a few years younger, stayed with their grandmother and other relatives. Barrymores first appearance on Broadway was in 1895, in a play called The Imprudent Young Couple which starred her uncle John Drew, Jr. and she appeared with Drew and Adams again in 1896 in Rosemary. In 1897 Ethel went with William Gillette to London to play Miss Kittridge in Gillettes Secret Service and she was about to return to the States with Gillettes troupe when Henry Irving and Ellen Terry offered her the role of Annette in The Bells.

A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Years Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter the Great at the Lyceum, men everywhere were smitten with Ethel, most notably Winston Churchill, who asked her to marry him. Not wishing to be a wife, she refused. Winston, years later, married Clementine Hozier, a beauty who looked very much like Ethel. Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of her life and their “romance” was their own little secret until his son let the cat out of the bag 63 years after it happened. After her season in London, Ethel returned to the United States, charles Frohman cast her first in Catherine and as Stella de Grex in His Excellency the Governor. After that, Frohman finally gave Ethel the role that would make her a star, Madame Trentoni in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, which opened at the Garrick Theatre on February 4,1901

He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United States. Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884, by Emperor Alexander III, although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a career in Russia at that time. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Tchaikovskys training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From this reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style—a task that did not prove easy, Russian culture exhibited a split personality, with its native and adopted elements having drifted apart increasingly since the time of Peter the Great. This resulted in uncertainty among the intelligentsia about the countrys national identity—an ambiguity mirrored in Tchaikovskys career, despite his many popular successes, Tchaikovskys life was punctuated by personal crises and depression.

His homosexuality, which he kept private, has been considered a major factor. Tchaikovskys sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera, there is a debate as to whether cholera was indeed the cause of death. While his music has remained popular among audiences, critical opinions were initially mixed, some Russians did not feel it was sufficiently representative of native musical values and expressed suspicion that Europeans accepted the music for its Western elements. Others dismissed Tchaikovskys music as lacking in elevated thought, according to longtime New York Times music critic Harold C, and derided its formal workings as deficient because they did not stringently follow Western principles. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, a town in Vyatka Governorate in the Russian Empire. His father, Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky, had served as a lieutenant colonel and engineer in the Department of Mines and his grandfather, Pyotr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky, served first as a physicians assistant in the army and as city governor of Glazov in Viatka.

His great-grandfather, a Ukrainian Cossack named Fyodor Chaika, distinguished himself under Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava in 1709, Tchaikovskys mother, Alexandra Andreyevna, was the second of Ilyas three wives,18 years her husbands junior and French on her fathers side. Both Ilya and Alexandra were trained in the arts, including music—a necessity as a posting to an area of Russia meant a need for entertainment. Of Tchaikovskys six siblings, he was close to his sister Alexandra and twin brothers Anatoly, alexandras marriage to Lev Davydov would produce seven children and lend Tchaikovsky the only real family life he would know as an adult, especially during his years of wandering. One of those children, Vladimir Davydov, whom the composer would nickname Bob, in 1844, the family hired Fanny Dürbach, a 22-year-old French governess. Four-and-a-half-year-old Tchaikovsky was initially too young to study alongside his older brother Nikolai. By the age of six, he had become fluent in French, Dürbach saved much of Tchaikovskys work from this period, which includes his earliest known compositions, and became a source of several childhood anecdotes

After a few motion pictures, Duprez moved to New York City for a brief career on. On 10 September 1944, Duprez starred in Forever Walking Free and she starred in the June 20,1946 episode of Suspense, titled Your Devoted Wife, on CBS radio. She married her first husband Frederick Beauchamp, a wealthy Harley Street doctor, in 1935 and she married for a second time in October 1948 to George Moffett, Jr. a wealthy sportsman. They had two daughters, but ended in divorce in 1965 and she died there, after a long period of illness on 30 October 1984 at age 66. June Duprez June Duprez at Find a Grave Video, June Duprez and Frank Buck in Tiger Fangs on YouTube

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO make-up artist Mel Berns. This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who starred together in Bringing Up Baby, Holiday. Cary Grants performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a Cockney accent, Cockney was not, Cary Grants original accent. Sylvia Scarlett and her father, flee France one step ahead of the police, while employed as a bookkeeper for a lace factory, was discovered to be an embezzler. While on the ferry, they meet a gentleman adventurer, Jimmy Monkley. According to RKO records, the film lost a whopping $363,000, and thus began a downturn in Hepburns career from which she would eventually recover

Cary Grant was an English-born American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s and became known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor …

Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage actress regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre" whose career spanned six decades. — Early life — Barrymore was born …

Ethel Barrymore, 1896

Barrymore in 1901 in one of the costumes from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines

Barrymore playing the male character Carrots in a play of the same name, 1902

George Coulouris was an English film and stage actor. — Early life — Coulouris was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, the son of Abigail and Nicholas Coulouris, a merchant of Greek origin. He was brought up both in Manchester and nearby …

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the …

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St Peter's Abbey at the time of Edward's funeral, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million …

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 459,300. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities …

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. In its original incarnation, as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum …

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the only performers ever to make the annual list of top box office stars while with RKO. Top Hat (1935) was the third of the eight films in which they costarred between 1934 and 1939.

Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre …

Broadway north from 38th St., New York City, showing the Casino and Knickerbocker Theatres ("Listen, Lester", visible at lower right, played the Knickerbocker from December 23, 1918, to August 16, 1919), a sign pointing to Maxine Elliott's Theatre, which is out of view on 39th Street, and a sign advertising the Winter Garden Theatre, which is out of view at 50th Street. All but the Winter Garden are demolished. The old Metropolitan Opera House and the old Times Tower are visible on the left.

The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. The HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private …

Chairman Dies of HUAC proofs his letter replying to President Roosevelt's attack on the committee, October 26, 1938.

Lee Slater Overman headed the first congressional investigation of American communism in 1919.

Conservative Texas Democrat Martin Dies served as chair of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, predecessor to the permanent committee, for its entire 7-year duration.

Democrat Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania was chair of HUAC from 1955 until his death in 1963.

In political and social sciences, communism is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership …

Communist propaganda is the scientific, artistic, and social promotion of the ideology of communism, communist worldview and interests of the communist movement. While it tends to carry a negative connotation in the Western world, the term "propaganda" broadly refers to any publication or campaign …

Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. In the mid-1930s he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdraw from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing …

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh …

A cigarette case is a sturdy container used to store small numbers of cigarettes and prevent them from being crushed. A typical cigarette case is a flat box that opens symmetrically into two halves. Each half stores a row of cigarettes …

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A cigarette case covered in black leather with silver trim, showing the outside and the inside filled with cigarettes.

The Hollywood Reporter is an American digital and print magazine, and website, which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large-format print magazine with a revamped website …

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby, Going My Way, The Long Voyage Home …

June Ada Rose Duprez was an English film actress. — Early life — The daughter of American vaudeville performer Fred Duprez and Australian Florence Isabelle Matthews, she was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England, during an air raid in the final months of World War …

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city-dwellers, it was gradually restricted to Londoners, and particularly to "Bow-bell Cockneys": those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St …

The British grave of The Unknown Warrior holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a …

The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams. The play premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in 1938 with Williams portraying Morgan Evans. The original Broadway production starred Ethel Barrymore and premiered at the National Theatre on …

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Ethel Barrymore in the original Broadway production of The Corn Is Green (1940)

Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress. She starred in a number Hollywood films like Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as the housewife and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series, Father Knows …

Dan Duryea was an American actor in film, stage, and television. Known for portraying a vast range of character roles as a villain, he nonetheless had a long career in a wide variety of leading and secondary roles. — Early life — Born and raised in White Plains …

George S. Barnes, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer active from the era of silent films to the early 1950s. — Biography — Over the course of his career, Barnes was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, including for his work on The Devil Dancer …

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them …

Konstantin Shayne was an actor from the Russian Empire who emigrated to the United States. He was born Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski, November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974). — Biography — Shayne was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire to the family of …

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the …

The Story on Page One is a 1959 American drama film written and directed by Clifford Odets, and starring Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, and Gig Young. Shot in CinemaScope, the film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. — Plot — As the film begins, young Los Angeles lawyer Victor Santini …

In common usage, a sound stage is a soundproof, hangar-like structure, building, or room, used for the production of theatrical film-making and television productions, usually located on a secured movie or television studio property. — A sound stage should not be confused …

A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires. Ruby is one of the traditional cardinal gems, together with amethyst, sapphire, emerald, and diamond. The word ruby comes from ruber …

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, colloquially known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and located in San Marino, California, United States. In addition to the library, the …

Blake Ellender Lively is an American actress. — Lively is known for starring as Serena van der Woodsen in the CW drama television series Gossip Girl. She also starred in a number of films, including The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Sisterhood …

Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian actress and producer. She began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller Dead Calm and the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton. In 1990, she made her …